I'm not following your question. The pre-data and post-data sections each go to an individual file, but the data section goes to a directory. I can restore the files using psql, but it is the restore of the directory that is hanging.
On 11/12/18 11:44 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > David <dlbarron28@gmail.com> writes: >> I have some experience with different versions of Postgres, but I'm just >> getting around to using pg_restore, and it's not working for me at all. >> ... >> But a matching pg_restore command does nothing. >> pg_restore -U postgres -f predata.sql -v > This command expects to read from stdin and write to predata.sql, so > it's not surprising that it's just sitting there. What you want > is something along the lines of > > pg_restore -U postgres -d dbname -v <predata.sql > > regards, tom lane >
In this case, does the "General options" -f make sense? restoring to a file?